Jessicka Addams – Please Stop Loving Me
Florida-born, Los Angeles-based artist Jessicka Addams‘
fascination with Goth culture, all things John Waters, death and cats
collide in a disconsonant shower of sparks in her newest body of work, Please Stop Loving Me. Inspired by The Cure‘s “End”, Please Stop Loving Mestarts
as a mystery providing boxes of clues to the artist’s intent,
bit-by-bit, moment by painful moment, glimpses of a person unraveling.
Each one is carefully archived: grief here, betrayal there, an
undiagnosed illness and several sudden deaths of the people closest to
her. Experiences that changed her life indefinitely have been made
corporeal, never to be forgotten. Throughout her exploration of
identity, vulnerability and loss, Jessicka maintains an element of humor
that subtly lifts the heaviness of her melancholy sculptures and
paintings.
Jessicka is also the founding member and singer of seminal indie rock bands Scarling and Jack Off Jill, who reformed for select live dates in 2015. Additionally, she is also the resident curator and researcher at Dark Dark Science,
investigating the fluid relationship between art and music. Through
Dark Dark Science, Jessicka strives to gain an understanding of the
processes of others, the methods of individual visual artists, as well
as the nature of their relationships with music and film, while
continuing to create and exhibit her own work.
Jessicka’s work has been displayed throughout the United States, and
featured in numerous publications like the French Art magazine Hey!
Copies of her zine After Grrrl: Small Stories from Big Lives, a collection of stories from her friends and influences, will be available at the opening. For more information about After Grrrl please visit here.